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[quote=Anonymous]My DD was an exceptional basketball player and the school she was at has a super-intense program (11 months of the year, 5 days/week, weights, weekday and weekend tournaments)

To cut to the end of the story, she now does another sport (an outside-of-the-school sport)

But here is why I'm writing this:  Assuming your kid wants to do it (assuming it's kid-driven and not pressure from the coach and especially friends on the team, or Dad);

You have to balance their chances on being a college recruit vs. them tanking their GPA because the sport doesn't give them enough time to either keep their GPA up and/or take challenging classes.

You have to be very careful on this, because *what is great talent for high school is not always great talent or recruitment material for college*

So in the case of our DD, she was so so good, but she didn't grow.  She realistically just wasn't tall enough to be a college recruit.

Meanwhile, their high school brings in (on scholarship, so high school recruits) some very talented and tall kids whose path to college will be through being college athletic recruits.

Those recruited kids have their ticket to colleges, so a lot of them don't have the *academic* work ethic as it's not the main driver for them.  Some used to give DD sh*t when they'd see her trying to get some studying in.

More importantly, the high school coach wasn't really concerned about DD's college future, just about winning games.

It was actually great luck that DD was the height that she was--if she was a couple inches taller, she would have been sort-of competitive but still a bit short, so it would have been a harder analysis.[/quote]

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